Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:59:29 +1100 > Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > > > Are you saying that you don't want any BSD packages or that > > > you're trying to make Debian out of only packages using GNU > > > licences? > > > > I would find it useful, for example, to more easily determine > > which works, or parts of works, are FDL-licensed. It's easy to see > > that others would have similar opinions on other licenses. > > Then you are second-guessing ftp-master as well. I don't know what you mean here. I'm not talking about whether a package is DFSG-free; I'm talking about having the copyright and license information discoverable before installing, to make a decision about the package on that pasis. > How do you expect to get a working system on that basis? A working system without any FDL-licensed works? Pretty straightforward, I suspect; they're thankfully a minority of packages I consider non-essential. Or perhaps I'm wrong, and there *are* some FDL-licensed parts of packages that I consider important. In that case, I would consider it even more important that the copyright and license information be machine-parseable so that I can find out easily. > It certainly doesn't warrant changing every single package in order > to support it and if not all packages support it, the benefit is > unachievable. Not true. Take debtags, for instance: the benefit of easily discovering the information they provide increases as more packages adopt them; more is better than fewer, and it's not necessary for every package to have debtags for it to be very useful. > That does not mean that it is worthwhile reformatting the > debian/copyright file in every single source package across Debian. > Have you any idea how much work that actually involves? Let me give > you a hint - it isn't going to happen. I'm not sure whose position you're arguing against here, but it's not mine. -- \ “I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without | `\ hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd | _o__) never expect it.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney
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